really saying there is that there is no legitimate criticism of candy crowley or martha raddatz or jim lehrer or bob schieffer tonight possibly, it's only sour grapes or whining from whose guy lost. what if the moderator screws up and effects the outcome of the debate? are we not allowed to criticize the moderator then? we criticize umpires if they screw up and effects -- effect the outcome of the game. what schieffer did in that quote is what so many mainstream reporters do. they are saying we're pure, we're above it all, and if you don't believe that, if you think we, the journalists are the problem, then you, and i'm pointing to the people at home, then you are the problem. >> bill: right. and you take take the reality that your side lost. >> right. >> bill: one of the things that bob schieffer could do is skew the debate one way or the other by his selection of questions. because unlike the town hall and unlike lehrer, schieffer has total control over the q and a here. he has total control of the topics. we know what the topics are going to be. first one is going to be america's ro